Twenty years moving capital. The last ten spent at the slower end of that: walking terraces in Marbella and Estepona with the people who are about to call this coastline home.
I came to investments at twenty-something and stayed for twenty years. Spreadsheets, term sheets, the long arithmetic of patience. By the time I moved my family from Jerusalem to Spain, I already knew that the only part of the business I still loved was the part that involved standing somewhere: a piece of land, a half-finished building, a quiet street, and feeling whether it was the right one.
A house is not a transaction. It is the next chapter of someone's life. We try to behave that way.
Spanish Riviera is the independent agency I founded a decade ago between Marbella and Estepona. We work with international buyers, mostly first-time on this coast, and we work almost exclusively with new developments, direct from the developers we trust.
What I have learned in ten years on the Costa del Sol is that the coastline rewards patience and punishes haste. There is always a newer development, a quicker flip, a louder broker. The people we work with are not in that race. They are looking for the home their grandchildren will swim at. We move at their pace.
I am one of them, in the end. I moved my own three daughters here from Jerusalem and meant it.